Staircase detail, former Newcastle Co Operative stores
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Description
Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne Art Deco style by Leonard Grey Ekins of the Co Operative Wholesale Society in-house architects department. "Newcastle Co-operative Society Department Store. 1 January 1932 to 31 December 1932. A co-operative society was established in Newcastle in 1860. The Newcastle Society first acquired property in Newgate Street in 1864. The art deco building currently standing at 95-103 Newgate Street was opened in 1932. It was designed by L.G. Ekins (an architect working for the Co-operative Wholesale Society). On the right-hand tower, the word ‘cooperative’ replaces numbers on the clock face. The General Cooperative Survey Committee, appointed at the Co-operative Congress of 1914, recommended that individual co-operative societies establish large ‘emporia’ or department stores. Many urban-based societies did so, and by the interwar years the co-operative movement was able to provide a network of large department stores. The Newcastle Society’s iconic department store remained open for over seventy years, closing in 2007(although the food hall stayed open until 2011)." http://radicaltyneside.org/events/newcastle-co-operative-society-department-store" rel="noreferrer nofollow">radicaltyneside.org/events/newcastle-co-operative-society... -
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Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/83226190@N00/51901282259/
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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Picture Taken: 2022-02-21T12:20:27 -
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